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Barak-8 eight-round launchers can be rapidly deployed on land to provide point defense for critical locations, and in networked groups for area defense. Following successful trials late last year, IAI’s Barak-8 medium-range surface-to-air missile is being delivered to customers, and is also now fielded with the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). The company does not discuss its customers, but acknowledges that the missile has been procured by Israel and India, plus others. Non-Israeli sources state that the Barak-8 has been adopted by the Indian Navy, which already employs the Barak-1, for service aboard its latest frigates, destroyers and aircraft carriers. Following...

The Indian-Israeli terror nexus Shireen M Mazari The present situation in the Middle East shows the desperate need for the UN to include state terrorism within any international convention on terrorism. Israel's unleashing of its military might against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people and against the hapless Lebanese state shows most starkly the terrorism a state with massive military resources can unleash. With US President Bush and his faithful sidekick Tony Blair, continuing to declare their absurd refrain of Israel's "right to defend itself", the international community has been reduced to a frustrated spectator to this latest act of...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Asia Analysis Group -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper no. 442 10. 04. 2002 INDIA’S PAYBACK TIME TO ISRAEL by Dr. Subhash Kapila In international relations, as in human relations a payback time occurs when one of the parties helping the other all along, itself needs support and understanding. In terms of India-Israel relations, it is payback time now for India. Israel today is under severe attack by a succession of suicide bombings resulting in the loss and wounding of hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians lives. These suicide attacks against Israel have been launched by Palestinian terrorist organisations and other Islamic Jehadi...